Knockdown toy chest



Oct. 2, 1956 s. DERMAN KNocKnowN Toy CHEST Filed Dec. 25. 1952 INVENTOR SAM DERMAN AT1-@RNE United States Patent O KNOCKDOWN TOY CHEST Sam Derman, Jamaica, N. Y.

Application December 23, 1952, Serial No. 327,534

2 Claims. (Cl. 229-23) This invention relates to toy chests of the type and kind sold in a collapsed or lknockdown state and quickly and easily set up for use. More particularly, the invention deals with a structure of the character dened made from a few parts which can be readily assembled in forming a strong and durable chest structure which can be utilized as a seat as well as for the storage of articles therein.

The novel features of the invention will be best understood from the following description, when taken together with the accompanying drawing, in which certain embodiments of the invention are disclosed and, in which, the separate parts are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views and, in which:

Fig. l is an exploded view showing the several parts of the chest in extended position, preparatory to assemblage of the parts to form a chest.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a chest made from the assemblage of parts, as shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a partial section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 on an enlarged scale, with part of the construction broken away.

In Fig. l of the drawing, I have shown in exploded relationship to each other, the three primary parts of my improved chest, the part comprising primarily the back, side and cover parts of the chest, 11 the front part and 12 the bottom wall part.

The part 10 comprises a back wall 13 having an inwardly folded supplemental wall 14; 15 and 16 shows the side walls having the inwardly folded supplemental wall 17 and 18, the side walls having inturned front flanges 19 and 20. At 21 I have shown a cover portion made separately from the wall parts 13, and 16 and hingedly attached to the back wall 13 at the upper portion 13 of said wall. The cover 21 is preferably made of several sheets of material to give strength and rigidity thereto and to form, on the resulting chest shown in Fig. l, a top wall structure which preferably overlaps the front and side walls of the resulting chest, but will be flush or substantially iiush with the rear Wall. By fixing the top wall 21 to the back wall 13, it becomes an integral part of the part 10 'om a standpoint of packaging and handling, but is not integral from the standpoint of production.

The lower central portion of the back wall 13 is cut out as seen at 22 to form two Vertical brace members 23 which are slotted, as indicated at 24.

The front wall 11 comprises a front wall portion 25 having a lower cutout, as seen at 26, to form members 27, similar to the members 23, the members 27 being notched downwardly, as seen at 28, so as to engage the notches 24 in coupling the members 23 with the members 27, as indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawing to form a firm support for the bottom wall part 12 when mounted in the chest, as will be apparent.

The front wall 25 includes a supplemental inwardly foldable wall 25' which is preferably made suliciently ice short in its length so as to lit within the anges 19 and 20, as indicated by arrangement with the flange 20 in Fig. 3 of the drawing.

Suitably secured to the side edge portions of the front wall 25 are angle-wood strips 29, the front portions of which are preferably apertured, as seen at 30, to facilitate manual passage of brads or other fasteners 31 therethrough to engage the flanges 19 and 20 in securing the front wall part on the back and side wall part 10 in the manner clearly seen in Fig. v1 of the drawing, three fasteners being preferably used on each of the rails 29. The fasteners 31 are the only fasteners utilized in holding the complete assemblage together.

The bottom wall part 12 is oblong and rectangular in form and is preferably made of a dimension to fit snugly within the supplemental Awall parts 14, 17, 1S and 25 of the back, side and front walls and this bottom wall has, at its peripheral edges, flanges 32 which lflex upwardly and give strength and rigidity to the walls in support of the walls in the rectangular position. The bottom wall part 12 rests upon the members 23 and 27, as will be apparent.

In the operation of assembling the parts from the exploded position illustrated in Fig. l of the drawing, the members 27 are coupled with the members 23 through interengagement of the notches 24 and 2S; the strips 29 are disposed upon the outer surfaces of therwalls 15 and 16 and on the anges 19 and 20 and the fasteners 31 are then applied to support the front wall on the side Walls 15 and 16. The wall parts 14 and 2S are then folded inwardly upon the walls 13 and 25, after which the walls 17 and 18 are folded inwardly upon the walls 15 and 16, in which latter operation, the walls 17 and 18 move snugly over the walls 14 and 25 and serve to support side edges of said walls firmly upon the walls 13 and 25. Then the bottom wall part 12 is placed on the top of the chest and moved inwardly, in which operation the anges 32 frictionally engage the walls 14, 25', 17 and 18 and force these walls outwardly into firm engagement with the walls 13, 25, 15 and 16. The coger now may be swung onto the upper edge of the chest to bring the parts into the position shown in Fig. 2.

In the collapsed position of the parts for packaging and shipment, it will be apparent that the parts can all be contained substantially within boundaries of the cover 21 and of a thickness which would aggregate the various wall portions arranged one upon the other on one surface of the cover.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A toy chest comprising three primary detachably coupled parts, one part comprising back and side walls and including a cover hinged to the outer surface of the back wall of said part, another part comprising a front wall and a third part comprising a bottom wall, upper edges of the back and side walls of the first part and said front wall having supplemental inwardly foldable wall portions, interengaging means, at the side edges of the front wall and at the forward edges of the side walls, for detachably coupling the first and second parts in assembling and disassembling the chest, said bottom wall tting within the supplemental walls of the first and second parts in supporting said supplemental walls upon inner surfaces of said parts, and interengaging means integral with the lower edge portion of the front and rear walls and extending to the bottom of the chest defined by the lower edges of the side walls and arranged beneath said bottom wall for joining the front and rear walls and for checking downward movement of the bottom wall part and forming transverse supports at the central portion of the bottom wall part.

2. A toy chest comprising three primary detachably Y 3 coupled parts, one part comprising back and side Walls and including a cover hinged to the outer surface of the back. Wall of said part, another part comprising a front wail and a third part Comprising abottom'wall, 'upper edges of the back and sidewalls of the rst part and Vsaid front wall having supplemental inwardly foldable Wall portions, interengaging means, at the side edges of the front wall and at the forward edges of the side walls, for detachably coupling the rst and second parts in assembling and disassembling the chest, said bottom wall itting withinfthe supplemental walls of the rst and second parts in supporting said supplemental walls upon inner surfaces of said parts, interengaging means integral with the lower edgeportion of the front and rear walls and extending to the bottom of the chest defined by the lower edges of the side walls and arranged beneath said bottom Wall for joining the front and rear walls and for checking downward movement of the bottom wall part and forming transverse supports at the Y central portion of the bottom wall part, said rst named means comprising anges at the forward edges of said side walls, corner strips at the side edges of the front wall, and fasteners passed through the latter strips and engaging said anges.

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Brooks Q. Dec. 4, 1951 

